Today marks the 3-month point to when my ETE term expires. Hopefully, I can have three more months to save money so that if I don’t get one of these other two jobs in the Company come January (when hiring should begin again), I have plenty of money to survive for a while without a job. However, I don’t expect…
Month: November 2008
Cats Being Cats
With my recently keeping my parents’ cat, I couldn’t help but smile when I saw this picture from an anonymous Japanese uploader.
There’s No Money in the Training Budget
We have this fairly large account called “Big Road Bank” (BRB). The account has been with The Company for a number of years, but the new executives in charge of things there have decided that they do not wish to outsource their work. Thus, they have begun to transition servers and support slowly back in-house to be completed by 2010.…
Five Myths About the Great Depression
The Wall Street Journal Online has an interesting article about some myths regarding the Great Depression. Some of this I already knew (such as President Hoover being a liberal Republican and that government policies to “help” people actually caused more problems) but some was new to me. In many ways, I can see the U.S. heading down the same road…
Sheeze, I’m Glad It’s Over
I am glad the election is finally over. Sadly, in a very short time, the politicians will begin campaigns for the 2010 election because frankly, it has just about become a case where all they do is work to stay in power and that disgusts me. Still, for a little while, no more phone calls telling me how firefighters, police,…